Shawn M. Galloway

Shawn M. Galloway is the President and Chief Operating Officer of ProAct Safety. As a professional keynote speaker and internationally recognized safety excellence expert, he has helped hundreds of organizations within every major industry, achieve and sustain excellence in performance and culture. Shawn is also the host of the highly acclaimed weekly podcast series, Safety Culture Excellence, a columnist for several magazines and coauthor of STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence.

“Any chance I get to hear Shawn speak always leaves me inspired and with renewed energy for safety”

Shawn has personally worked with National Institutes of Health, MD Anderson, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amway, Wrigley, Herman Miller, Eastman Chemical, Georgia-Pacific, Honda, Ingersoll-Rand, International Paper, Rockwell Automation, Timken, Starbucks, The United States Capital, The United States Armed Forces and over a hundred similar organizations. His speaking and consulting engagements have taken him throughout North America, Europe, UK, Middle East and Australia.

National Safety Council calls him a "Global safety excellence expert" and a "Top-rated speaker". ISHN Magazine listed him in the 2012 POWER 101 - Leaders of the EHS World, Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine refers to Shawn as a "Safety excellence coach" and IndustryWeek magazine writes "helps organizations achieve safety excellence". Shawn has published over 250 podcasts, 80 articles and 30 videos on the subject of safety excellence in culture and performance.


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List of Talk Topics & Descriptions

  • Zero Incident Goals Create Risk-Taking Cultures: Learn to Measure What Matters
    Zero incident programs and goals are the desires of average safety cultures, not excellently-performing ones. Organizations that have achieved sustainability of excellent results in culture and performance define, measure and motivate what they want, rather than what they don't. Is health the absence of visible disease? If you never receive a check-up by a physician, yet you feel good and nothing appears to be wrong, have you reached your health goals and feel confident you will live a long life with this approach? This session clearly outlines the difference and provides a framework to achieve sustainability, the biggest differentiator.
  • Contractor Safety Performance: A Framework for Managing Expectations
    In this time of strategic outsourcing, many companies are using third parties and outside contractors to support various business operations. Assuring that these third parties meet defined safety performance criteria can be extremely challenging. Do you hold contractors accountable for maintaining certain incident rates, or what they do to achieve them? How do you select contractors that are a good fit from a safety standpoint? Are your safety practices uniform, or are there different expectations for contractors and employees? Having a set system in place that establishes accountability is essential - but not always easy.
  • Developing a Safety Excellence Strategy: The Missing Link to Sustainable Performance
    Organizations must maintain a memorable framework to base decisions, prioritize initiatives and measure progress, not just results. Failing less, achieving zero incidents, new programs, developing leading indicators, building a sustainable safety culture are all great initiatives and goals, but they are not strategies. The speaker will share a strategy framework and execution methodologies to better influence your path towards sustainable excellence in safety performance and culture.
  • Safety Metrics: The Dysfunctional Big Picture
    Managing safety with lagging indicators has proven ineffective. But moving from lagging to leading indicators is not as transformational as moving from failure rates to success metrics. Organizations have used the same metrics for years to measure their financial performance. They measure their performance largely through lagging indicators. These metrics are accurate indicators of how the company is performing, but are not especially useful in helping managers make the company perform better. These metrics originated in the early days of the industrial revolution in capitalist countries. The goal was to measure the use of capital and the return on investment. In short, it was an accountability metric, not a management metric. Achieving safety excellence has taught us that most safety executives do not get what they want, because they are not measuring what they want. Moreover, it is easy to forget that sometimes an imprecise measurement of the right thing is better than a precise measurement of the wrong thing. Gain insight into a better-practices approach currently being taken by many of the best in safety throughout the world. Learn how leading organizations do it in this dynamic presentation.
  • The Transformational Leader: Establishing Cultural Excellence
    Safety professionals face challenges that intensify with each new hypercompetitive priority. The successful leader of tomorrow must become transformational to succeed. Learn the proven elements visible in all such leaders and how to move past managing results and compliance-based cultures. Attendees will receive tools and techniques that can be immediately applied, transforming their value to the organization and recognize sustainable step-change improvement in culture and performance.
  • Creating & Sustaining Safety Culture Excellence
    Warning: This session is intended for individuals with a desire to internally achieve and sustain safety culture excellence, not those looking for a silver bullet, training, program or methodology. Creating a sustainable safety culture only occurs through an internalization of key principles outlined in this energetic, insightful and exclusive session. Organizations in every industry eventually reach an important realization; safety excellence is equivalent to business excellence. With this, it is little wonder why there has been a significant, yet unfocused increase in the importance of a culture of safety excellence. Having a desire and executive strategy for such a reality is step one. Knowing where to focus your energy is step two. Internalizing the capability to achieve and repeat the results is the final step. Most never make it past the first step.
  • Behavior-Based Safety: How to Avoid the Most Common Pitfalls and Get the Results You Want
    Over the past few decades, Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) has proven to be an effective way to reduce workplace accidents. However, a successful program generally requires not only a strong commitment within the organization, but also a significant demand on company resources - including staff time, software documentation, and tracking investments. If your program isn't bringing you the results you want, now's the time to figure out why.
  • Why We Fail To See Risk
    Every second, countless bits of information are presented to us. For efficiency purposes, throughout our life, our brain has been developed to filter-out information deemed unnecessary and, instead, focus on a handful of critical details at any given time. The brain of a safety professional has been trained in a manner that facilitates the necessary recognition of risk. It is possible for others to benefit from this training as well.

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What our Clients have to say...

"Galloway's presentations provided excellent insight on safety leadership. His presentation of the various models for leadership were useful, but his depth of understanding and examples were particularly valid. In the Q&A session, he provided excellent guidance on how one achieves cultural excellence, which is particularly difficult in this age of transformation."

Richard Pollock, President, American Society of Safety Engineers

"We hired Shawn as our opening keynote speaker for our safety conference. Shawn delivered an excellent presentation. He demonstrated depth of knowledge on the topic of safety and developing a safety culture within and outside of the workplace. He was energetic, engaging and inspiring. He was able to connect with his audience of more than 550 individuals with diverse experiences and hold their attention. His ideas and perspectives ensured take-aways for all! Shawn set the tone for a great conference. I would highly recommend Shawn for an engaging keynote address!"

Judy Murphy, President & CEO, Safety Services Manitoba

"First of all, I'd like to thank you for coming to SafetFest last week. The thought of sitting through 8 hours of the same speaker didn't thrill me, but you did a terrific job. I enjoyed your presentation and got a tremendous amount of material and knowledge from it. I just finished entering the 12 pages of notes I took into my computer..."

Mark Rosenleaf, SafetyFestMT Attendee

"I am writing to express the Northern Occupational Safety and Health Association (NOSHA) sincere appreciation for being a part of our annual fall 2012 safety conference in Grand Forks, North Dakota at the Ramada Inn. Your keynote address "Safety Culture Excellence 101" and the Behavioral-Based Safety 101 breakout session were well received by the safety professionals in the audience. Many of the safety professionals I visited with said that 'Shawn created a spark in our minds that we need to implement more than the traditional safety methods to create an excellent safety culture'. Your dynamic delivery kept everyone alert, and involved. Again, thank you for your participation and energy in making the day a big success. You definitely exceeded our expectations! We definitely recommend your services to all companies and associations wanting to promote a positive change in their safety culture and management."

Rick Else, ND Workforce Safety & Insurance

"Shawn was recently hired to be the guest speaker for our annual BBS conference. He did a great job and was well received by the attendees for his knowledge of the subject and his presentation."

John Cobb, PQ Corporation

"Excellent Speaker - instilled hope in me to make a change back @ my company and gave me tools to start." "The topic was great!! The speaker is very knowledgeable and has a great approach to reducing injuries." "Shawn was a very easy to listen to. Great information and real life examples that he used in his presentation." "Brought new ideas to think about - a lot of information to take back to the workplace." "Excellent presenter with good information - loved the examples of actual assessments." "Numerous safety tips - Big picture thinking - practical applications - excellent Personnel/HR advice - great leadership training - mentioned lots of resources - simulated creative thinking - [shared] positive attitudes - confirmed good preventative like documentation and action planning - highlighted importance of good communication tools."

Anonymous Attendees, NOSHA Safety Conference

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of my company for the wonderful presentation you gave to us today. The presentation you gave was excellent. I learned a great deal and plan to follow your suggestions. The material you distributed will be most helpful, and I look forward to sharing it with several friends and coworkers who were unable to attend. Thank you again for such an informative and pleasant program."

Hussam Al-Kayali Ph.D., Operations Manager, Young Mfg. Inc.

"I attended your seminar in Grand Forks on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 and was very intrigued, I have been in HR/Safety for nearly 15 years now and this was by far the best safety seminar I have ever attended, thank you! ...thank you so much for the wealth of information you provided, but mostly for the motivation you sparked in me to try yet again to make some safety changes at my organization."

Corinna Carver, NOSAH Safety Conference Attendee

:Mr. Galloway did a PHENOMENAL job in his presentation. I not only enjoyed his easy style, but learned a lot. Of particular interest was his diagram on the safety excellence "bridge." He also "hit the nail on the head" for multiple other areas (i.e., alignment in strategic direction, perception barriers, coaching, safety "branding" issues, etc.) Thank you so much for this most informative session!"

ASSE Safety2012 Attendee

"Shawn provided one of the best sessions this year. He was extremely knowledgeable and provided a very good session on how we can create an excellent safety culture. He had excellent analogies and graphics. Very good. I will definitely signed up to go to other sessions that Shawn provides."

ASSE Safety2012 Attendee

"Mr. Galloway packed so much detail into this 1 hour presentation that there was no room left for questions (but he subsequently did by e-mail). This was the best session I attended this PDC."

ASSE Safety2012 Attendee

"Congratulations, you made quite the impression at the Summit with your two presentations. It was time well spent, professional and most informative."

Alaska Occupational Safety Summit Attendee

"I thought your presentations were excellent out of all the classes I took last week I got the most out of yours!"

VPPPA 2011 Conference Attendee

"We were privileged to have Shawn speak for us at the 2011 EHS Conference sponsored by the ACIT. While competing for attendance against simultaneous presentations, Shawn's session was heavily attended... and they were not disappointed. Shawn is an engaging speaker who is passionate and knowledgeable. He inspires and challenges his audience to approach safety with a fresh perspective. We hope he joins us in future years!"

Alisha Nash, Director Sales & Marketing, Hunter Buildings

"Thank you for leading today's Congress 2.0 Webinar: 'Create a Sustainable Safety Culture.' The program was outstanding, providing our attendees with a great deal of actionable and thought-provoking content. In fact, we've already received several positive comments from attendees, who have praised the quality of the presentation. I, along with my NSC colleagues, greatly appreciate the time and energy you devoted to this presentation-and we look forward to collaborating with you on future NSC training programs."

Ralph Gaillard, Director of Virtual Education & Training, National Safety Council

"Best speaker to date of conference. Great topic and presentation, do not grade excellent on all aspects but Shawn is a exception."

ASSE Region III PDC Attendee

Best speaker so far! Great job Shawn! Relevant to any & all SHE professionals."

ASSE Region III PDC Attendee

"I am writing to express our sincere appreciation for being part of our annual ASSE Suncoast Chapter Professional Development Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Your keynote address "Building and Sustaining a Safety Culture" was well received and it kept all that attended glued to your every word, and they all seem to agree that it was one of the best ever! Receiving a standing ovation from this seasoned group of safety professionals is quite a compliment.

Your presentation supported our conference theme centered on Behavior-Based Safety and was engaging, entertaining, motivational and balanced with good substance for take-away utilization. Your dynamic delivery kept everyone alert, and involved. Again, thank you for your participation and energy in making the day a big success. You definitely exceeded our expectations! We look forward to working with you in the future."

Michael E. Adams, Vice President, ASSE Florida Suncoast Chapter

"Good speaking voice; inflections; easy to stay attentive; Lots of data for hour class."

NSC Texas Safety Conference & Expo Attendee

"Amazing!! Delivery was spot on. He is "Zig Ziglar Jr.". Will do great things for any company looking to improve."

Richard Tomlin, HSE Compliance Coordinator, Rowan Companies, Inc.

"Shawn is an expert on BBS, his in-deep knowledge is well shared when he delivers training. He shares good advice and is always positive and encouraging. An enthusiastic speaker that lets you see he is a BBS believer and true practitioner."

Victor Jaen, EHS Regional Manager, Ingersoll Rand